Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walliams

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

David Heyman

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

David Icke

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

David Hume

It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.

David Hume

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

David Dreman

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

David Dunn

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

David Duchovny

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

David Brock

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.

Yves Guillemot

We're looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.

William Shakespeare

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Al Hubbard

There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively.

Denis Dyack

More people play video games than watch movies, read books, listen to music and watch TV combined. We're doing everything we can to have the industry come of age.

Jenna Jameson

My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...

David Casey

Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.

John Galbraith

Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book.

Caroline Leland

She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me.

Robert Burton

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Gerald Brenan

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Gerald Brenan

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Joseph Addison

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have here below.

Piers Anthony

Much of what is published is actually science fantasy, seeming possible but actually impossible, such as faster than light space travel.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Mike Butcher

We're looking for a guy that can step it up.

Nigel Kneale

Certainly, it isn't a ghost story where people go into a haunted house. There have been two or three made on that basis, but I didn't want to do that.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Kate Thompson

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Alan Keyes

Would you join me in repudiating that kind of racial slur, to apologize?